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Building the future : building technology and cultural history from the Industrial Revolution until today / Ulrich Pfammatter ; [translated from the German by Jeremy Gaines and James Roderick O'Donovan].

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Munich ; New York : Prestel, [2008]Copyright date: c2008Description: 325 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3791339265
  • 9783791339269
Uniform titles:
  • In die Zukunft gebaut. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720.9 22 PFA
Contents:
From greenhouse to 'high-tech' hothouse' - virtual experience space of industrial and communicative societies -- Building as an art or the art of building? Railway sheds, expo pavilions, terminals - spatial landscapes of the future -- How concrete became lighter - 100 years of concrete pioneers -- The 'liberated facade' - from wall to partition to skin -- Process thinking conquers construction - industrialisation from the balloon frame to the skyscraper -- "Sustainable building design" - a future project -- Sir Ove Arup: the key search, 1970.
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Book - Borrowing Book - Borrowing Central Library Second Floor Alahram 720.9 PFA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 383 Available 000016480
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From greenhouse to 'high-tech' hothouse' - virtual experience space of industrial and communicative societies -- Building as an art or the art of building? Railway sheds, expo pavilions, terminals - spatial landscapes of the future -- How concrete became lighter - 100 years of concrete pioneers -- The 'liberated facade' - from wall to partition to skin -- Process thinking conquers construction - industrialisation from the balloon frame to the skyscraper -- "Sustainable building design" - a future project -- Sir Ove Arup: the key search, 1970.

Text in English ; translated from the original German.

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